A Smart Politics analysis finds that ABC reporters have been called on the most frequently during Barack Obama's solo news conferences followed by CBS, the Associated Press, and NBC with FOX News coming in at a distant ninth at less than half the rate of the top outlets and less than 40 percent of press conferences overall.

ABC reporters have been called on 29 times, followed by CBS with 28, the AP with 27, NBC with 26, Bloomberg with 20, Reuters with 17, and The New York Times and CNN tied with 16. Fox News ranks ninth with the president selecting the outlet 14 times for questions, according to the blog post titled "FOX still Shunned at Obama Press Conferences."

Still, Fox News ranks higher than many other major publications. The president called on reporters from The Washington Post 11 times, USA Today got 9 questions and the Wall Street Journal got 8. POLITICO, meanwhile, was called on twice.

As for individual reporters, the study found that Obama called on NBC’s Chuck Todd and former ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper the most — 23 times each — during his first term. Ostermeier also notes that Todd has managed to turn in the 23 times he’s been called on into “52 series of questions and follow-up questions (excluding multiple questions posed within one series), including multiple queries to the president on the debt ceiling on Monday.”